Re: Direct access to hardware

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (dake@staszic.waw.pl)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 08:37:06 EST

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Please show me where Linux checks every byte of an executable before
> running it to make sure it doesn't f00f or coma your CPU.

Actually fix for a "coma bug" looks very... ehm... interesting:

linux-2.4.0-test2/include/asm-i386/bugs.h:
(...)

static void __init check_cyrix_coma(void)
{
}

(...)

Is it working?

-- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bkz@linux-ide.org>

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